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3 unusual facts about Gmünd, Carinthia


Porsche 356

Production started in 1948 at Gmünd, Austria, where approximately 50 cars were built.

Porsche 356/1

The aluminum roadster body of the 356/1 was designed by Porsche employee Erwin Komenda in April 1948 at Gmünd and completed only a month later.

Stuttgart Neuwirtshaus station

In 1950, Porsche KG, which had re-established itself after the war in Gmünd, Austria, returned to Stuttgart by establishing its headquarters in Zuffenhausen.


Arriach

Therefore the Four Evangelists parish church, erected in 1903, is the largest Protestant church building in mainly Catholic Carinthia.

Austrian presidential election, 2010

Carinthia Governor Gerhard Dörfler spoke out against such a candidacy, because he "wouldn't like to join forces with Heinz-Christian Strache's Freedom Party", but nonetheless said that Claudia Haider would be a "good candidate, who could finance her campaign on her own".

Bela Peč Castle

The Counts of Celje had controlled the area - a nexus of important trade routes between Friuli, Carinthia, and the Upper Sava Valley - since 1418, having inherited it from the Counts of Ortenburg.

County of Tyrol

Henry II 1295-1335, son of Meinhard II, also Duke of Carinthia, King of Bohemia 1306 and 1307-1310, jointly with his brothers

Duchy of Carinthia

Carinthia however remained a separate entity, and in 1012 Count Adalbero I of Eppenstein, Margrave of Styria since about 1000, was vested with the duchy by Emperor Henry II, while the Istrian march was separated and given to Count Poppo of Weimar.

Ezzo

Hezzelin I, also Hezelo (Heinrich, m. a daughter of Conrad I, Duke of Carinthia), was Vogt of Kornelimünster

Gitschtal

Gitschtal (Slovene: Višprijska dolina) is a town in the district of Hermagor in the Austrian state of Carinthia.

Gmund am Tegernsee

Fameous personalities who lived in Gmund were the Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Ludwig Erhard and the architect Sep Ruf.

Griffen

Griffen, Austria, a town in the district of Völkermarkt in Carinthia

Günther Tschabuschnig

Raised in Carinthia Tschabuschnig studied Medical computer science at the Vienna University of Technology and the Medical University of Vienna.

Heinz Harmel

After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich, on March 13, 1938, Harmel moved with his unit to Klagenfurt, capital of Carinthia.

Himmelberg

Himmelberg lies in the center of Carinthia northwest of Feldkirchen.

Hubert Klausner

Hubert Klausner (1 November 1892 in Raibl (today: Cave del Predil), Tarvisio in the Val Canale - 12 February 1939 in Vienna) was an NSDAP Gauleiter and a Landeshauptmann (premier) of Carinthia.

Ilka Pálmay

She was married twice, first to actor-manager József Szigligeti (from 1877 to 1886), and then to Austrian Count Eugen Kinsky in the early 1890s, who maintained an estate at Althofen in Carinthia.

Jakob Fugger

The expansion continued with the construction of smelting plants in Neusohl, Arnoldstein in Carinthia, Hohenkirchen in Thuringia and Moschnitz.

John Henry, Margrave of Moravia

Thus, after Henry of Gorizia-Tyrol had died in 1335, Emperor Louis IV gave Carinthia and southern Tyrol including the overlordship of Trent and Brixen to the Habsburg dukes, who themselves could refer to their mother Elisabeth of Gorizia-Tyrol, sister of deceased Henry.

Kočevski Rog

This area, known in German as Gottschee, was settled in the late 14th century by the Carinthian Counts of Ortenburg initially with colonists from the Ortenburg estates in Carinthia and Tyrol, and by other settlers who came from Austrian and German Dioceses of Salzburg, Brixen and Freising.

Krems

Krems, Carinthia, a small municipality in the district of Spittal an der Drau in Carinthia in Austria

Lake Wörth

Wörthersee, an alpine lake in the southern Austrian state of Carinthia

Leopold III of Austria

Leopold III, Duke of Austria, (1351–1386), Duke of Styria, Carinthia, Tyrol, and Vorderösterreich of House of Habsburg, died in Battle of Sempach

Lurnfeld

He marched against Carinthia from his Tyrolean residence at Bruck Castle, crossing the border at Oberdrauburg and occupying Spittal to lay siege to the Ortenburg fortress.

Maria Lanc

Maria Lanc (born Maria Jenewein; born 1911) lived in Gmünd, Lower Austria with her husband Arthur Lanc, a medical officer, in 1944.

Murboden Cattle

Murboden Cattle are bred primarily in Carinthia, Styria and Lower Austria in Austria, and in the bordering Slovenia.

Mutius von Tommasini

In 1832 he accompanied Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure (1767-1845) on a botanical excursion through the Austrian Littoral region, and in 1837 with British botanist George Bentham (1800-1884) he performed studies in the regions of Carniola, Carinthia and Friuli.

Noreia

Another possibility, favoured today, is the Gracarca, a hill beside the Klopeiner See in Carinthia, an area where several graves of Celtic princes have been found.

Some scholars think that Noreia can be identified with the excavated Celtic-Roman settlement on the Magdalensberg in Carinthia, Austria.

Oberdrauburg

The name of the town corresponds with the municipality of Dravograd in Slovenia, former Unterdrauburg, where the Drava crosses the border from Carinthia to Lower Styria.

Pan-Slavism

In Austria-Hungary Southern Slavs were distributed among several entities: Slovenes in the Austrian part (Carniola, Styria, Carinthia, Gorizia and Gradisca, Trieste, Istria (also Croats)), Croats and Serbs in the Hungarian part within the autonomous Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia and in the Austrian part within the autonomous Kingdom of Dalmatia, and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, under direct control from Vienna.

Reichenfels

Neighboring municipalities in Carinthia are Band Sankt Leonhard and Hüttenberg.

Republic of German-Austria

This included nearly all the territory of present-day Austria, plus South Tyrol and the town of Tarvisio, both now in Italy; southern Carinthia and southern Styria, now in Slovenia; and Sudetenland and German Bohemia (which later became part of Sudetenland), now in the Czech Republic.

RHI AG

In 1881 the German merchant Friedrich Albert Carl Spaeter (1835–1909) from Koblenz established magnesite works in Veitsch, Styria; followed by the Austro–American Magnesite Company at Radenthein, Carinthia in 1908 and Dolomite Franchi at Marone, Italy in 1919.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Gurk

The episcopal residence was transferred in 1787 to the capital of Carinthia, Klagenfurt.

Rosina von Graben von Rain

Rosina was born at her father's residence Sommeregg near present-day Seeboden in Carinthia.

Sankt Urban

Sankt Urban lies in the Gurktal Alps in north-central Carinthia, about 10 km northeast of Feldkirchen on St. Urban Lake.

Šentjanž pri Dravogradu

Šentjanž pri Dravogradu is a settlement on the left bank of the Mislinja River south of Dravograd in the Carinthia region in northern Slovenia.

Siemowit of Cieszyn

As a Teutonic Knight, Siemowit was successively named komturem of Oleśnica Mała near Oława since 1360, Prior of Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, Austria, Styria and Carinthia since 1372 and Governor and Treasurer of the Order in Germany since 1384.

Slovene dialects

The first attempts to classify Slovenian dialects were made by Izmail Sreznevsky in the early 19th century, followed by Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay (focusing on Resia, Venetian Slovenia, Cerkno, and Bled), Karel Štrekelj (focusing on the Karst), and Ivan Scheinig (focusing on Carinthia).

St. Thomas's Church, Rateče

It was discovered in 1880 at Klagenfurt in Carinthia, where it is kept in the archives of the Carinthian Historical Society.

Suhi Potok

The German name Dürnbach also literally means 'dry creek' and may be compared to similar names in Carinthia, such as the hamlet of Dürnfeld in the Municipality of Magdalensberg.

TAG Tegernsee Immobilien und Beteiligung

Until 1998 as Tegernsee-Bahn (Tegernsee Railway) it operated the railway line from Schaftlach via Gmund to Tegernsee.

Treaty of Neuberg

While Albert retained the Archduchy of Austria, Leopold became the exclusive ruler of the Duchies of Styria (including the town of Wiener Neustadt), Carinthia, Carniola, the Windic march, the County of Gorizia and the Habsburgs' possessions in Friuli, Tyrol and Further Austria.

Trudpert Neugart

Trudpert Neugart (born Villingen, Baden, 23 February 1742; died at St Paul's Benedictine abbey near Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria, 15 December 1825) was a Benedictine historian.

Velden

Velden am Wörther See, a municipality on lake Wörthersee in Carinthia, Austria

Vitus Miletus

Vitus Miletus (surname originally Möller) (born at Gmünd, Swabia, 1549; died at Mainz, 11 September 1615) was a German Roman Catholic theologian.


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